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According to a new report by Matt Finer of the green group Save America's Forests, however, the western Amazon could be on the brink of an energy bonanza - and that could be bad news for the rich array of plants and wildlife the forest supports. Finer points out that there are approximately 180 separate zones of development for oil and gas exploration in the western Pacific, run by at least 35 multinational energy companies. The area covers almost 700,000 sq. km. and it's growing fast. In 2003 Peru cut oil and gas royalties in an effort...
...most formidable agent of ecological disruption: humans. That means an influx of hunters and loggers, along with the heavy equipment and personnel needed for oil exploration. "Our attention has always been focused on the rainforest in eastern Brazil, because that's where the road network is," says Finer. "But the roads being put into the western Amazon have the potential to open up the area...
...trivializes actual news) are now simpler to manage. When you read a "story" on your news feed and find out a friend has just enjoyed a Big Mac, you can comment on it ("OMG! Me too!!!"), right in the feed. And FacebookConnect, which will start showing up on finer websites and blogs everywhere this fall, is an ID system that lets you log in to places - for commenting, say, or Digging stories - with your Facebook...
...outdoor dining spots in the city. Authors Simon Roger and Sylvain Ageorges use three implacable criteria: "quiet, nearly invisible, and yet in the middle of Paris." Thus, writes Roger, it's "too bad for the famous sidewalk cafés of the Boulevard Saint-Germain" - this guide has something finer in mind...
...Hulky was last among us five years ago in a movie that "disappointed" his fans and those of director Ang Lee, who usually operates at the "finer things" level of moviemaking. It apparently made enough money to encourage this sequel, and Norton plays him a little more soulfully (I think) than Eric Bana did five years ago, though it doesn't much matter to me that Bruce hates the hulky half of his schizoid personality. All monsters, from Frankenstein's onward, share that feeling and use it to enlist our sympathy. It's as routine in these movies...